RAMALLAH, Monday, January 20, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities’ order for Palestinian families to evict their houses in occupied Jerusalem under the pretext of cracks in the walls in their buildings that may lead to their collapse dominated the front-page headlines in Monday’s issue of the dailies.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli occupation authorities ordered seven Palestinian families to evict their houses in Bab al-Silsila (Chain Gate) and al-Qarmi neighborhoods inside Jerusalem’s Old City, citing the cracks resulting from Israeli excavations under the neighborhoods.
The dailies added that an Israeli court ordered the forceful removal of the al-Rajabi family from their building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, ruling in favor of settlers’ takeover of the building.
According to al-Ayyam, an Israeli court also ruled in favor of the demolition of four Palestinian houses in Wadi al-Hummus area, on the edge of Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Sur Baher.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that US President Donald Trump will decide when to unveil the US-touted Mideast plan, dubbed deal of the century.
Al-Quds said that Israeli forces rounded up 12 Palestinian youths in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank. Al-Hayat al-Jadida noted the detainees totaled 14, including a minor and six former prisoners.
Speaking on the besieged Gaza Strip, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that more incendiary balloons were launched from the sea enclave into bordering southern Israel.
Al-Ayyam added in this regard that the so-called Nighttime Confusion Unit would resume its activities along Gaza’s frontier as Israeli forces reinforce their deployments.
According to the dailies, a Palestinian succumbed to his serious wounds he had sustained from Israeli military gunfire as he participated in the Great March of Return protests on Gaza’s eastern frontier in 2018.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that the Palestinian Health Ministry dispatched a shipment of cancer and Thalassemia medicine to Gaza.
According to the dailies, Israeli occupation authorities have banned the head of the Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem and former Mufti Sheikh Ekrema Sabri entry into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for one week.
Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Saeb Erekat was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida urging the European Union to recognize the state of Palestine and diplomatically intervene to preserve the prospects of a just and lasting peace.
Al-Ayyam said that the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee has successfully secured the eviction of settlers from a house belonging to the Arafah family in Hebron’s Old City.
Regionally, the dailies said that Jordan’s parliament passed draft law to ban gas imports from Israel.
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